Italia Meteor Fireball 2MAY2012

Ferrara, Italy Meteor Fireball 2MAY2012 00:5:508+1 UTC
(c) 2012  Ferruccio Zanotti
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Fireball from Ferrara, Italy.
http://meteore.forumattivo.com/t2470-fireball-20120502_005508-1-ut

Ferruccio Zanotti ( IMTN )
2012 THE Year of Meteors!

“Sirente crater”, Italy impact origin disputed 26MAR09

An article in journal of Geophysical Research disputes the origin of the what has been called the “Sirente crater”.The paper discussing this theory is:
Speranza, F., I. Nicolosi, N. Ricchetti, G. Etiope, P. Rochette, L. Sagnotti, R. De Ritis, and M. Chiappini (2009), The “Sirente crater field,” Italy, revisited. Journal of Geophysical Research. vol. 114, B03103, doi:10.1029/2008JB005759
http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2008JB005759.shtml

They concluded:
“Our data show that the Sirente crater and the minor depressions are simply the results of human activity and karstic processes, respectively.”
An article that discusses this paper is:
Bondre, N., 2009, Geomorphology: Crater or not? Nature Geoscience. vol 2, no. 3, p. 166.

TOC at
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v2/n3/index.html

PDF file at
http://www.tulane.edu/~kmstraub/Publications/Abrams_09/News_and_Views_09.pdf

Source: Paul H.

Italian Fireball makes THREE for 13~15FEB09

Italian Fireball 13FEB09 Photo by: Diego Valeri (c) 2009
The evening of Friday 13 two stations of the Italy center have recorded a large fireball of mag -16/-17!!! ( The hour is in UT )
Possible the fall on the Earth of a meteorite. Moreover in the same timetables have been observed others 5/6 fireball to the north and center Italy.
The radiating is in:
AR. = 159.4 degree
Dec. = 22.2 degree
The radiating is in Antihelion (Delta Leonids).
Source: Roberto Haver, Italy
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Well, in the evening (2009, Febrary 13th, at 20:03:29±1 U.T.), over CentralItaly,a very bright fireball was detected from Rieti.

In the link, posted by Roberto Haver, you have a fireball frame image:

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/84/m20090213200329contiglihd3.jpg

The apparente magnitude was -16.9±2.7 and its time of transit was 6.2±0.1 s.

High probability of impact to ground. We're computing the possible point of intersection with Earth, from video records.
Source and Photo Credits: Diego Valeri

Other recent events were 13Feb09--Kentucky, USA
Austin, Texas 11:20CST 15FEB09